Vice President Joe Biden and Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a design contest that would call for master plans to improve New York's LaGuardia and JFK. The vice president famously suggested the former wouldn't be out of place "in some third-world country" during a visit to Philadelphia in February. Then as now, though, neither Biden nor Cuomo had specifics on a financing plan for the capital improvements the winner of such a design competition would likely suggest. In fact, there's already a competition going on among three groups that are bidding for a $3.6 billion project to rebuild LaGuardia's Central Terminal Building; the Port Authority says it may pick a winner at an October 22 meeting. The agency says the project could be finished by 2021. (WSJ, NYT, Condé Nast Traveler, and Crain's)

Airline fares generally ticked up by a few dollars—the first such increase since April—even though the carriers have been paying less for fuel in recent months. One analyst says that the price increase shows that Ebola fears haven't hurt demand for air travel, at least in the U.S. (AP)

The global travel industry is concerned about Ebola, Joe Sharkey reports, but "the mood … is let's not panic," one executive says. (NYT)

A strike by Lufthansa pilots continues today and may affect up to 200,000 passengers, Barbara Peterson reports. (Condé Nast Traveler)